One of the most anticipated moments of the Pokémon World Championships each year is the unveiling of the special Pokémon trading cards awarded as prizes to the top three finishers in each age division of the Pokémon Trading Card Game and Pokémon Video Game Championships (VGC), as well as the top three finishers in the Pokémon Go and Pokémon Unite tournaments. The three cards bear the same name each year—Trainer #1, Trainer #2, and Trainer #3. They were awarded on August 18, 2024, the last day of the 2024 Pokémon World Championships.
About the 2024 Pokémon TCG World Championships Prize Cards
What’s notable about the Worlds 2024 Prize Cards is the fact that the cards use the same artwork as the Worlds 2023 version, but with the logo in the bottom left corner replaced with this year’s logo. This was somewhat expected, as last year’s card artwork was very well-received by the Pokémon TCG community.
Although the top four finishers at the Pokémon World Championships—that is, all three players in each category who were awarded this card—are automatically qualified for the following year’s World Championships, the 2024 version of the card is the first time that this is not stated in the text of the cards. This is likely to avoid an awkward situation in the event of an emergency cancellation, as was the case in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic; the 2019 version of the cards rather embarrassingly read the phrase “You can return in 2020 to battle the best.”
Publication details
These cards will only be published in English. And not only that: the cards awarded at the World Championships will be the only copies of these cards that will ever exist.
If at least one of these cards ever sells, you can expect that card to fetch a huge profit.
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